WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Federal Aviation Administration has issued a proposed rule called: Airworthiness Directives; ATR-GIE Avions de Transport Regional Airplanes.
The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on July 7 by Steven W. Thompson, Acting Deputy Director, Compliance & Airworthiness Division, Aircraft Certification Service.
Summary: The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain ATR-GIE Avions de Transport Regional Model ATR42-500 and ATR72 airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by an investigation indicating that an erroneous monitoring of the travel limitation unit (TLU) could occur when the airplane is flying above a certain speed as a result of the logic input from either air data compute...